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Combines the accessibility and mass appeal of the American marketplace with the local layout and touches of the Singaporean design. The glass ceiling of the American “minimalism” look combined with the classic archways , a standard trope of Asian design, combine together to create a beautiful blend of cultures.  Inviting colorful design permeates the entire marketplace, giving it a friendly feel, making the entire place feel vibrate, bringing feelings of a friendly neighbor.

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Singapore Art Museum is centered on contemporary art practice in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

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Design Culture: Art exhibitions
Many Korean artists have held exhibitions here. Such examples are  Osang Gwon's sculpture, "BluRay_B" for the "Medium at large" exhibition,  Monica So-Young Moon who did a collaboration with another Singaporean artist, Ashley Yeo for an artwork titled "Ocean's Room" from the "Odyssey: Navigating the Nameless Sea" exhibition. Another artist is Choe U-Ram, who created "Ultima Mudfox" and "Una
Lumino Callidus Spiritus" for the same exhibition.

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Social Media
A Korean restaurant called "Bonchon Chicken" that sells Korean food. It has all Korean Cuisine , Korean Fried Chicken , Korean Stews , Snacks & Finger Food. Korean food has become popular due to widespread news through media such as korean tv shows and mukbang.

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Design culture: Art stores
Bras Basah complex is a place known for residing several book, printing and art stores.

It has a store that is called INKINK Collectibles that has art prints done by Artgerm and many other toy figurines of Superman and Star Wars which all originated from USA.

Bras Basah complex
American art stores is more globalized with lots of chain stores, Singaporean design is a lot more focused community that has stores owned by the locals. Just like Korea where the art stores have a lot of local products and also provide those from other countries.

USA
They have many art stores in New York City such as Blick Art Materials that provides different art materials such as markers and canvases. There is also Toho Shoji, another Art & craft store that sells jewellery components.

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Aesthetics : Fashion
Calvin Klein, an American fashion brand that has become popular and accepted amidst the fashion in Korea. This was seen with the various street style looks during Korea Fashion Week.
Accessories that were used were such as from CK Calvin Klein Spring 2017 series, featuring Hyperfloral and classic engineered causal backpack for men and enveloped micro bucket bag in shades of spring colors and engineered micro goat leather backpack with studs for women.

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Design Culture & Colours
In South Korea, Buddhism makes up 15.5% of the entire population, amounting to approximately 7.6 million people. It may not seem like a large percentage, it is still one of the more dominant religions, hence it is still easy to find a prominent Buddhist temple in every major city.

While the practices of Buddhism may vary from country to country, the design infrastructures of the temples remain unchanged, sharing similar elements in terms of its colours and features.

The five main primary colours used are red, blue, green, black and white, but they are often mixed to form new colours, with each colour having its own symbolism. For example, red symbolizes the south, birds, summer and fire.

In terms of the design culture, the features shared between the temples are its tiled roofings, use of wood in its interior, and also its pointy shapes. All of these factors made these temples easily distinguishable.

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Aesthetics

CHIJMES is a historical site in Singapore that was restored for commercial purposes, most of which are for dining and entertainment.

The most prominent US influence found within CHIJMES is Bobby's Restaurant & Bar. The design aesthetics of this bar is stylized with an industrial look. The interior is designed with red-bricked walls and lined with lots of steel, evoking a wild west ambience. It is accompanied by eye-catching art pieces as well as wooden furnishings. Even sports events are being broadcasted, much like the American culture where sports fans come together to bar to support their favourite teams with much noise and passion.

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Cafes around the world share many similar traits due to the cultural exchanges, hence there is a diversity of different architecture styles and designs in them.
The interior of Artichoke has hints of the American-style design as certain parts of the walls are decorated with Andy Warhol's iconic pop art style designs as well as Shepard Fairey's famous Andre The Giant graffiti.

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Restaurant in America for comparison.

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For Korea, the design similarities lie within Artichoke's layout as well as the choices of furnitures used, giving it a very neat and organized outlook. Below is an image of a cafe in KT Square, Seoul, for comparison.

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The Peranakan Museum showcased much antiques and items of the Peranakan people. One of the items showcased that shared similar elements with the Korean culture would be the aesthetics of their bridal attires.

Both the bridal attire's designs looked to be vibrant in their colours and also loose fitting, and they also give off a very oriental feel to it from the many different patterns on the fabric. For the groom, the attire is mostly in a darker colour lined with a gold embroidery at the middle.

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The National Museum of Singapore was built with a Neo-Palladian and Renaissance architectural style. These styles are also very much present in American architecture due to the influence of the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. His travels through Europe had influenced him to apply a mix of Palladian-style and neoclassical architecture. An example to show its distinct similarity in the traits shared would be the Virginia State Capitol, conceived by Thomas Jefferson himself.

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Bugis Junction is also like the shopping areas that are found in Korea such as Goto mall (Gangnam Terminal Underground Shopping Centre) that sells many accessories, clothes and cosmetics and  Ewha Woman’s University Shopping Street where you can find brands such as TonyMoly and Skinfood, popular korean brands for cosmetics.

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Ewha Woman’s University Shopping Street

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Goto mall (Gangnam Terminal Underground Shopping Centre)

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Kio Da

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Bugis Junction is filled with many Korean beauty shops such as TonyMoly, The Body Shop and many more.

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Design Culture
It is one of the lifestyle retail store that sells food, cosmetics and other lifestyle accessories from Korea found in Bugis Junction. "Kioda" means cute in Korean.

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Blick art materials

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Toho Soji

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Mint (Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys) Museum of toys is a place that featured collection of toys. It is also a place where families can make toys as part of the activities there.

(USA)
Design Culture
These graphic posters and original enamel advertising signs at the museum are influenced by the old American wall art style. There were also toys of Marvel super heroes franchise such as Spiderman. Marvel Comics is an American comic books publisher created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and many others.

Best New Global Design,
Chicago Athenaeum International Architectural Awards, 2007

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I saw this wall mural that was situated at Bras Basah Complex and thought that it reminded of a popular art piece done by an artist in America. After much looking around the net to research about the original artwork, I finally got the name of the artist that have inspired this wall mural. Keith Haring, an American artist that was popular for his pop graffiti art that he started first at subway stations then later showcase his artworks in museums.